Legend claims it began with a lightning bolt. A single strike set the African plain aflame — revealing a geological secret buried for more than 585 million years. The violet-blue gem we now call tanzanite occurs in only one place on Earth: Tanzania’s remote Merelani Hills, beneath Mount Kilimanjaro. In 1967, Portuguese tailor Manuel De Souza searched for gold but...read more
Legend claims it began with a lightning bolt. A single strike set the African plain aflame — revealing a geological secret buried for more than 585 million years. The violet-blue gem we now call tanzanite occurs in only one place on Earth: Tanzania’s remote Merelani Hills, beneath Mount Kilimanjaro. In 1967, Portuguese tailor Manuel De Souza searched for gold but instead found vivid stones uncovered by a brush fire. Christened tanzanite in honor of its homeland, tests revealed a composition more complex than sapphire and colors more intriguing, alluring, and exotic than any gemstone. With our Tanzanite and White Topaz Ring, you take home a rare treasure of gemological history.
